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When the Moon rose in the Third Northern Hall I went to the Ninth Vestibule to witness the joining of three Tides.

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

#susanna clarke #piranesi #The Ninth Vestibule

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The birds sit silent in the Sixth Western Hall

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

#susanna clarke #piranesi #Sixth Western Hall #birds

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paradiso started rewatching wolf's rain, aaaa

#wolf's rain #Wolf's Rain Kiba #Wolf's Rain Tsume #Wolf's Rain Toboe #Wolf's Rain Hige #anime

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Original Sin ~ Meat Loaf

Someone convince me this song wasn't one of Crowley's drunk rants.

[ Been listening to the man's music, I like this one, though my favorites remain my first album, Bat Out of Hell, which was introduced to me very (ir?)responsibility in 4th grade by my dad, thanks Dad!]

#Youtube #meatloaf #nerdy soundtracks #crowley #it's this Good Omens headcanon material?

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Dang it, now I gotta start a playlist for English Magic don't I.....

the yawning grave by lord huron is john uskglass core

listen to it and be convinced i am right.

#john uskglass #the raven king #jonathan strange and mr norrell #lord huron #faecore #nerdy soundtracks

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I find myself thinking a lot about Iroh.

Just casual stuff... Like ... The fact Iroh is a lier.

A Grade A+ lier.

Like, you know, the fact Iroh had been lying about stuff to everyone's face since well before Zuko was even born!

Lying about a lot of "traitorous" stuff... To a whole court and country's worth of people.

Including but not limited to killing the last dragon... Or rather NOT killing the last dragons. Like, straight up lying to his father's face about killing the last of the dragons like grandpa sozin wanted. Like maybe even Azulon himself wanted, we don't actually know.

Oh and being in a super secret club for people who want to maintain harmony and balance and the beauty thereof... probably sneaking out to have long philosophical chats with these likeminded, none war mongering, hateful, spoils of war/gold digging, ladder climbing, Royal Family bum kissers (*cough* Zhao the Moon Slayer *cough* Ozai's Ass Kisser). And worse than just that! He wasn't just hanging out with the wrong crowd (in Ozai's opinion, presumably Azulon's too, but the man was dead before we can get an honest read on him), he was chatting it up with those "lesser foreign folks"! The horror!!! Can you imagine what gramps sozin would have thought? Agni bless his soul!!!

Like Azula wishes her lie game was even close to Uncle Iroh's heavy weight championship lie game.

Azula always lies, duh. But then there's Iroh over there and we can't be sure he's actually lost his Pai Sho tile or if he just needed to nip over to the nearest White Lotus post office to send a proverb coded letter!

Which is it old man? Are you a dork who poisons himself in pursuit of fine tea or the AtlA version of James Bond? Which is it?.... Both... Apparently...

Makes you wonder about everything we never got to see about the man's backstory. Who was his wife? Why's he so short? Where did he meet the White Lotus? How'd he hear about the Sun Warrior dragons? What was it that brought him to heel to Sozin's mission statement as General Iroh, besieger of Ba Sing Se? Exactly how long had he been openly lying about his "traitorous" motives? When did Ozai notice? Why didn't Iroh notice his little brother was so deeply steeped in the poison that he was plotting to usurp the throne? Why was he so very different from his brother, from his grandfather, presumably from his father?

#Iroh is a traitor? #Iroh is a highly intelligent individual with a surprisingly sound moral compass raised on a thinly veiled agenda of blatant colonialism #and rejected the entire thing including his right to the throne #uncle iroh #dragon of the west #avatar: the last airbender #atla #Elcia writes

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— I had this idea at least 6 months ago and it did not look like this in my head BUT.. I am very familiar with the feeling of intense jealousy and sadness that comes with seeing a family dynamic that you envy.. And I feel like once Azula gets a chance to breathe and reflect, these emotions and the realization that her beliefs about her family were false and the man she idolized used her.. Well, it will hit her like a freight train..

#avatar: the last airbender #atla #zuko #azula #azula redemption #trauma #implied child abuse

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"Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed"

Okay for context the other rabbit is nanabozho! (Also called Wenabozho, Nanaboozhoo, Nanabush and Manabozho, they have a lotta names--) and he's a prolific and prominent character in many of my people, the anishinaabe (Ojibwe), stories!

I drew him interacting with el-ahrairah because he reminds me so much of nanabush-- they both have a connection to a higher power, their gods, both are tricksters, both are part of their respective creation myths, and both care deeply about their people!

Nanabozho is a shape shifter, while he takes many forms their most common is a hare! So that just made me think of them even more fjdndndn

(I posted this on insta a while back and the artist for the Watership Down graphic novel liked it and I still haven't recovered mentally from that--/pos)

Oh btw, nanabush is genderfluid, no I am not joking--

#So many of the ancient trickster “gods” played fast and loose with gender norms #folklore #ojibwe #trickster #el-ahrairah #prince with a thousand enemies #watership down #richard adams

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Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

#crow time #secondlina art #webcomics #crows

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An Art Nouveau silver-plated fairy lamp by Moritz Hacker, circa 1905. From here.

#faerie #faecore #art nouveau #shells #fairy lights

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Giulia concept art by Daniela Strijleva

#concept art #luca #pixar luca #giulia marcovaldo #disney #Daniela Strijleva

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Talking to my dad, specifically about the 'kids' being rounded up on college campuses, cause he's seen this scene before...

It's the 60s and the Vietnam war all over again.

#peaceful protest

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such tricks won’t work on me

#megamind #roxanne ritchi #minion

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The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague - Miyuki Tonogaya

・Demographic: Josei

・Genre: Romance, Comedy, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Himuro-kun is a living descendant of the Snow Woman from Japanese folklore. But anytime he's around his eccentric yet kind colleague, Fuyutsuki-san, he totally freezes up! Despite the snowstorm of love that rages on in his heart, and her complete cluelessness, will he take a step forward or stay frozen in place?

Read Here

this manga is incredibly cutee. filled with charming and adorable characters that makes me smiling from ear to ear. one of my comfort manga(s).

#the ice guy and the cool girl #ice guy and the cool female colleague #ice guy and his cool female colleague #koori zokusei danshi to cool na douryou joshi #himuro yukiya #fuyutsuki mio #himuro x fuyutsuki

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Suki's eyes are not green.

They are grey or when we can see them most clearly in strong daylight, they are blue.

A blue leaning in the direction of dark grey rather than bright or light blue.

But again not green.

This has been a public service announcement for fans of Avatar the last Airbender.

#Don't wave comic pages at me I'll wave half of the boiling rock episode back #there are no comics in Ba Sing Se #avatar: the last airbender #atla suki

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🤣🤣🤣

Makoto "I turned the male love interest into a chair to make it less heterosexual" Shinkai

#suzume #suzume no tojimari #makoto shinkai #i turned her love interest into a chair to make it less heterosexual #anime

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Just watched this on Crunchyroll. Omg it's such a gorgeous movie! And the sound track nearly had me in tears!

★ 【唏嘘的星辰】 「 suzume 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

#suzume #makoto shinkai #anime